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Caught up with Ali (a school friend of mine today) and her children.  It was great to see them but also realised just how much I miss them.  They live a couple of hours away and we don’t get to see them that often - last time was about a year ago.  Having kids at school, and both of us with husbands and kids that play sport in the weekend means we can really only meet during the school holidays now.  We both drove for an hour to meet in the middle, the kids had a run around in the park for an hour and a half, then we had lunch and more play at McDonalds.  The kids all played well together although Elliot still thinks he’s the Kung Fu Panda and had to remind him not to hit the others!  Here’s a photo of Jack (7), Abbey (6), Max (5) and Elliot (3).

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A wee heads up for all you people out there with very young daughters. Worried that your 0-6 month old darling doesn’t quite look the part in her baby booties? How about glamming things up a bit with some high heels? Yes, your baby daughter can look the part in high heels with shoes from Heelarious.

Sheesh!

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We had our first family day at the movies yesterday and decided to see Kung Fu Panda.  The boys both handled the length of the movie pretty well although Elliot did get a wee bit scared during one of the fight scenes and spent the next hour on my knee

What we should have realised of course is that for the next God-knows-how-long we would have three and five year olds terrorising each other with very dodgy martial arts moves.  Elliot gets terrified with Max pretending to punch and kick him and wails his head off.  All terrible until Max gets bored and turns his back then a three year old Bruce Lee comes bursting out and he somehow thinks that Max will be OK with a karate chop to the head…….

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Everyone here has been sick over the last week with Vic getting it the worst.  Hopefully we are all on the mend now just in time for the weekend.

The boys have been OK for a couple of days - so good that they were having some fun the other morning with some blow up guitars

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So I’m in Melbourne this week and it’s been raining on and off with some high winds (just like home really :))  I was walking from the building that my course was in back to the hotel and had to walk along the banks of the Yarra river.  Rain plus high tide ensured that my walk was somewhat disrupted……

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42 - that’s how old I am today!

My day has been spent “working from home” and looking after a sick wife and 3 year old - to be fair it was quite nice looking after the family.

Besides my new MacBook Pro Vic bought me a harmony universal remote that I can program on the PC.  The boys also bought me a Wii Fit which Max and I had a hoot setting up tonight :)  I’m a very lucky man…

Not so lucky is the fact that I’m off to Melbourne for another week on Sunday

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I’ve moved to the dark side!  This is my new toy - 15″ Macbook Pro.  I’ve had it 12 hours and am still trying to figure out how to do the basics but am enjoying the un-learning/learning process.

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